Here are several declarations Prime Minister made on Thursday:
- the Government’s medium term aim is to increase Romania’s energy independence by raising the domestic energy production
- the government also seeks to reduce the dependence on a unique energy import source
- it aims to provide a common policy for energy security within the European Union
- it aims to promote a national energy identity meant to support the three objectives and to correlate Romania’s inner energy policy with the country’s European duties
- the strategy for energy must be part of the defence strategy
- Romania needs to start off with thorough research of its resources and to design a strategy until 2020-2030, to correlate national and European investments
- the Nabucco project was granted European financial support
- our current production structure, unique in Europe, sets a competitive market for the electric energy, the electric energy produced in the thermal power stations with the energy produced in hydra-electric and nuclear power station
- In reality, there is no real competition, because the system favours the hydra-energy and nuclear energy producers
- we have to use a mix of energies within each of the future production societies
- we will create a limited number of strong, viable societies able to compete with companies within the EU
- regarding the nuclear energy sector, the Government aims to create two more groups at Cernavoda and to consider constructing another nuclear power station
- we will not neglect the other European projects which are now under discussion
- Romania has a strategic advantage in owning an important position in each of these projects.